Reducing Salt in Human Diets - A New Invention Concept

It has been said that Americans have too much salt in their diet, but we are hardly alone around the world. Everyone is looking for a certain taste, and humans have evolved to seek out those tastes. However, too much salt is not good, and it could lead to other challenges. Therefore, most medical professionals and most of the research I've read tends to support the reality that we need to reduce the salt in our diets throughout our population. Okay so let's talk about this for second shall we?

You see, even those folks that watch the amount of salt intake don't realize that they are getting far more than even they might have considered, and generally, that amounts to much more than they need also. Now then, as I was considering this challenge the other day; how to get humans to reduce their salt intake it occurred to me that there might be ways to trick the human mind, and yet still satisfy the need and the taste buds. Let me explain a few concepts and innovations that could help us do just that.

Bumps on spoon
Salt Smell on Chop Sticks
Edible Tape Around Spoons, Forks, Chop Sticks

If they spoon had bumps on it, the mind might assume that those bumps were salt crystals, thus triggering the taste buds to seek out the salt. The salt wouldn't actually be on the spoon, but there might be a little bit in the food, since the taste buds were seeking out that salt taste, they would be more apt to find it in the food, even if there was a drastically reduced amount.

Next, it might be possible to create nano-particles embedded within the spoon or fork, or perhaps even on chop sticks that smelled like salt, therefore once again triggering the mind into believing it is getting salt, when it really isn't, or when that salt has been drastically reduced. This might be very good for an orbiting space station, or even a lunar or Martian colony, where such things as food additives would be in short supply.

Lastly, another concept I had come up with would be edible tape, a small strip which could be placed around the lower handle of the spoon or fork which smelled like salt. On chop sticks the tape could be placed about the distance between where the food would normally be grabbed by the chopsticks and the distance from the center of the mouse to the nose, which is about an inch or less.